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New York Times Television Critic Gina Bellafante, remarking on how nice it is to see attractive people cast as the working class characters on NBC drama “Friday Night Lights”, which is just beginning its second season:

The young actors who appear in it are sculptured, mesmerizing specimens, the camera pointed at them so that their bodies and faces consume the whole frame, immersing us in the world of their characters’ totalizing preoccupations. The direction suggests no universe beyond Dillon, Texas, where the show is set, and when you’re watching “Friday Night Lights,” you find yourself decidedly uninterested in looking for one.

The casting of the impossibly attractive that is so endemic with programs like “The OC” is rarer in depictions of the working class, where television perpetuates the prejudicial belief that people who attend luncheons are always going to be better looking than the sort of people who merely eat lunch.